Report: McAfee Says Malware At All Time High

[vic20]

NOD32 + MalwareBytes active (pay version) FTW

Security software with biggest market share = most exploited and bypassed. aka McAfee, Norton = Useless (not to mention slowing your machine down more than the actual infections do)

I also find Telus's and Shaw's free antivirus to run very slow, Bitdefender to be terribly buggy, and AVG free to blow up a lot and need re-installing.

 

[extremepcs]

Screw McAfee. I'll never use them again after they sent out that bad update a few months ago that killed XP. We've been using MS ForeFront since then and loving it.

 

[pjmelect]

The only anti-virus software worse than McAfee is Norton!!

 

[omikron48]

The only AV from McAfee I use is their Stinger, for when I need something else to scan a computer with in case the installed AV missed something. ClamWin helps too. Diversity is key.

 

[lauxenburg]

Don't do anything stupid and you won't get a virus.

 

[eddieroolz]

Of course it is. McAfee is like a malware in itself.

 

[eklipz330]

eh, they aren't worse than norton.

 

[agnickolov]

Sigh... The World Cup was in South Africa, which is a country in Africa, not South America, which is in turn a continent, not a country. The host is a country - not a continent!

 

[johnny_5]

[citation][nom]vic20[/nomSecurity software with biggest market share = most exploited and bypassed. aka McAfee, Norton = Useless (not to mention slowing your machine down more than the actual infections do)I also find Telus's and Shaw's free antivirus to run very slow.[/citation]
Ha, Shaw, haven't heard that name in years. Anyways it does seem logical that the most used antivirus programs would be the ones the malware creators would work hardest to get around. I never had an antivirus for about a year when I first got a computer. I got around to installing it, but they annoy me when they always recognize my game cracks and stuff like that as malware, so I've since uninstalled my protection. I probably should get something just in case, but I'm lazy, and have more pressing things to fix, such as my windows authentication workaround and my Megavideo time limit workaround, and my choppy connection.

 

[shanky887614]

well anti-virus programs are easy to disable ( i read this in an article written about one of the legal hacker conventions)

aparently it only takes a small amount of code to do it

but most people who complain about there anti virus program getting infected is usually becasue they have been on dodgy sites or downloaded dodgy stuff becasue most of the viruses you get of websites are not very well made and easy to get rid of

but for ones that arnt there is allways UBVCD4WIN which makes it impossible for viruses to stop you getting rid of them unless you managed to infect your bios somehow

i got macafee free with bt, it is the worst antivirus i have ever used and i have tried many free trials and all in and out of virtual machines and it really slows your computer down

it even slows down my computer to a crawl and i have a 3Ghz dual core E7600 and 3GB of ram

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]subgum[/nom]I haven't used anti-virus for years and my machine had never been infected. Use your brain, don't click on what you shouldn't.[/citation]

Not all viruses are blatantly obvious and obnoxious. You could very well have a virus and not even know it, seeing as you don't have anything to detect it.

 

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]johnny_5[/nom]I never had an antivirus for about a year when I first got a computer. I got around to installing it, but they annoy me when they always recognize my game cracks and stuff like that as malware, so I've since uninstalled my protection. I probably should get something just in case, but I'm lazy, and have more pressing things to fix, such as my windows authentication workaround and my Megavideo time limit workaround, and my choppy connection.[/citation]

Considering a lot of virus writers take advantage of cracks by slipping viruses and malware into them? yeah, I think you should! A number of them written up about actually do contain malicious code. Maybe not erase your harddrive stuff, but keyloggers and other tracker code.

Remember the fake files on filesharing networks that are loaded with spyware and malware? Either created that way, or downloaded and re-uploaded with the malware slipped inside.

 

[Maxor127]

Seeing how I got my first infection in years just by visiting a site, I'd agree. I need to start learning Linux.

 

[belardo]

Isn't McAffee the cause of malware nowadays?

I find it installed on name-brand computers, fresh out of the box - it needs to be wiped off ASAP! Such garbage.